“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
― Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
― Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
RuthAnne’s 2025 Year in Books
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